Write powerful poems that respond to injustice and strive for change.
MA Foundation Seminar with Meryl Pugh 2024/25
Monthly Zoom seminars, with MA Core Tutor Meryl Pugh, for those looking to develop the skills necessary for postgraduate poetic study.
T.S. Eliot Prize 2024 Preview Workshop with Joelle Taylor
Explore the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist with poet, playwright, editor, and previous winner, Joelle Taylor!
My People: Poetics of Social Change Masterclass
Unshackle your language and transform your poetry with liberation poetics.
Darkness into Light – Poetry for the Waxing Year
Summon the poetics of the seasonally sensitive with dark arts, folklore, and myth.
Play, Happenstance, & Improv: Women in Abstract Art Masterclass
Methods of making; start with art and a feminist approach to ekphrasis.
Bumptious & Unruly: Queering Ecopoetics Masterclass
Join the weird, multi-species crew of our compost-bin spaceship, Earth.
Wednesday Workshop with Tim Dooley
Our long-running weekly workshop with Tim Dooley, for poets looking to develop their individual voice and technique.
Transreading 40 Years of Tears in the Fence
Write poetry at the pointy end – pioneers, protest, and poetics of the possible.
‘cicadas exist; chicory, chromium, citrus trees’: an Environmental Transreading Masterclass
Enquiries into the ecological – researching poetic responses to academic studies on the environment.
Friday Workshop with Natasha Hakimi Zapata
A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading.
Interrogating Influence: Traditions in Poetry
Understanding our ancestors; form and freedom in anglophone poetics.
Drawing Language: Experimental Scores, Drawings, & Asemic Writing Masterclass
Explore the intersection of experimental poetry, drawing, music, and performance as we create new work, adjacent to language.
Experimental Voice Work – Embodied Writing
Explore and experiment with your voice as an instrument and develop new forms of embodied writing and performance.
The Close Read: Advanced Poetry Workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou
Develop your writing through discussion and feedback in this advanced workshop with Anthony Anaxagorou.
Poetry at the Next Level: An Advanced Workshop with Wayne Holloway-Smith
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career
Freedom in Form: Creativity, Control, & Craft with Jacqueline Saphra
Mix up your writing and learn new skills and techniques with Jacqueline Saphra.
Reading, Writing, & Translating the Persian Poetic Tradition
Explore extraordinary Persian poetics as inspiration for your own work.
Poetic Portraits: Capturing Someone in So Many Words
Bring your subjects to live with poetry of close attention and individual focus.
New Territories: An Intermediate-Advanced Workshop with Wayne Holloway-Smith
Bring your writing to the next level and explore contemporary poetry’s cutting-edge.
Interdisciplinary & Translingual Explorations with Astrid Alben
An exciting, advanced poetry workshop with the innovative Astrid Alben.
Le Poetesse: Transreading Contemporary Italian Verse
Discover current Italian women poets writing beyond the traditional.
Hymns to Life: Poetry, Documentary, & Time
Capturing temporality in your own personal poetics.
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Mark Waldron
An advanced weekly workshop group with the inimitable Mark Waldron.
Poetic Forms for Beginners
Spark your creativity and take your first steps into the world of poetry!
Fortnightly Feedback with Jennifer Lee Tsai
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and teacher, Jennifer Lee Tsai.
‘The Doors of Perception’: Pop Culture & Poetry
Explore new approaches in your writing through the lens of pop culture!
Rachel Long’s Advanced Weekly Workshop with Special Guests
An exciting advanced workshop group with the much-loved Rachel Long and the benefit of special guest tutors each term.
Technique [How to Discover or Disown It] 2.0
What training do you do to sustain and maintain yourself as a poet? Explore the essential work of writerly ‘technique’, in an all new edition of this popular course.
Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis
How can we write poetry through times of ecological emergency, perpetual war, or personal crises?
Writing the City: Transreading Paris in the Springtime
Parisienne pleasures - Paris as poetic muse.
Clarity & Vision: Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price
Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price.
Beginners’ Workshop Group
Join a supportive community for close reading and developmental feedback on your new poems!
Saturday Sessions with Ros Barber
Monthly all-day Saturday workshops with Ros Barber.
Queer Objects: Sidling Up to the Subconscious
Peek at queerness out the corner of your eye and learn to write into your subconscious.
Kiss Kiss Studio
It's all in a kiss! Join us for an intimate course with interdisciplinary artist and poet Tice Cin, exploring the kiss in poetry.
‘True North’ Studio
What are we talking about when we talk about the North?
Narrative Art: Poetic Storytelling
Structure storied poems and narrate like a natural.
Poetry as Apocalypse in Language Studio
Unveiling the unseen for revelatory, experimental poetics.
Women, Writing, & Place
Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.
Conditions of Invisibility & Creation of the Self, after Gboyega Odubanjo
Gboyega: Locating selfhood, seen-ness, and invisibility in Adam. Decent.
Fragmentation: Making & Unmaking Poetry
Blow-up to glow-up; use non-traditional means to make magic fragmented poems.
What Makes a Collection?
From manuscript to collection – what to know as you prepare for submission.
Writing What Can’t Be Said
Risk and reward – saying un-sayable things.